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Bitcoin [BTC] is back above $23,000 for the first time since 13 June, thanks to a strong bullish performance in the last seven days. Eagle-eyed BTC enthusiasts may have noticed that the latest rally pushed Bitcoin out of its narrow range where it had been locked for four weeks.

The next critical level for BTC to contend with is above $28,000. However, are market conditions in favor to drive the coin to its next critical level? Lets find out.

Bitcoins latest performance suggests that investors are now dealing with the fear of missing out on Bitcoin.

Additionally, the Fear and Greed index was at 31, which still stands in the fear territory, but can be considered a massive improvement from last month.

For context, the same index was in the extreme fear territory and stood as low as nine roughly four weeks ago.

However, an improvement in the score doesnt necessarily mean there is enough demand to push BTC back to previous levels.

There were heavy outflows from 3IQ Coinshares and Purpose BTC ETFs during Bitcoins sharp crash in the second week of June. The same ETFs have maintained relatively low activity since then, but their accumulation would likely fuel recovery to May levels.

We have to factor in that strong demand may also come from elsewhere. Exchange inflows and outflows may provide a rough idea of the level of demand for Bitcoin currently in the market.

As per data from Glassnode, exchange outflows increased from 14,542 BTC to 42,390 BTC between 16 and 19 July. On the other hand, exchange inflows increased from 16,313 BTC to 39,329 BTC during the same period.

Exchange outflows have notably been higher than inflows. However, the gap between exchange inflows and outflows was relatively small at press time.

This suggests that BTCs demand might not be as pronounced. Despite low demand, the good news is that whales have been accumulating Bitcoin in the last few days.

The number of addresses holding more than 10,000 BTC stood at 99 addresses as of 19 July. This represents an increase of three addresses from 4 July.

The only time that Bitcoin had a higher number of addresses worth over 10,000 BTC addresses was during the mid-June dip. Perhaps this is a sign that whale sentiment is improving at current price levels, likely after waiting for the worst to pass.

However, Bitcoin still has a lot of ground to cover to get back to May levels, even after its latest rally. There is bound to be some profit taking along the way.

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Bitcoin: What Wikipedia wont tell you about BTCs recovery to May levels - AMBCrypto News

Incredible.Totally Made Up

A mysterious Chinese Wikipedia contributor who goes by the alias "Zhemao" spent ten years making up fictional accounts of Russian history, writing over 200 articles, and contributing to hundreds of others, Chinese English-language publication Sixth Tone reports.

Wikipedia editors have since noticed the falsified accounts after ten years of unknowingly hosting their contributions and promptly bannedthem from the online encyclopedia.

The web of lies Zhemao created is an astonishing body of work in and of itself, albeit entirely made up. Their contributions range from fictional accounts about Slavic rivalries to stories about Qing Dynasty officials a dizzying mishmash of fantastical fiction and history worthy of a series of fantasy novels. At the end of the day, you gotta respect the hustle.

It's also a colorful reminder of the fact that we can't take everything we read online for granted, particularly when it comes to often dubiously sourced Wikipedia entries.

And that's particularly relevant, given China's problematic history with controlling the historical narrative using propaganda (in fact, Sixth Tone itself is overseen by the Chinese government).

"Chinese Wikipedia entries that are more detailed than English Wikipedia and even Russian Wikipedia are all over the place," fantasy novelist Yifan, who stumbled upon Zhemao's fictional Wikipedia contributions, wrote in a Q&A online, as translated by Sixth Tone.

"Characters that dont exist in the English-Russian Wiki appear in the Chinese Wiki, and these characters are mixed together with real historical figures so that theres no telling the real from the fake," he added.

After Wikipedia noticed the ruse, Zhemao published a public apology.

"As the saying goes, in order to tell a lie, you must tell more lies," the apology reads, as translated by Sixth Tone. "I was reluctant to delete the hundreds of thousands of words I wrote, but as a result, I wound up losing millions of words, and a circle of academic friends collapsed."

The story leaves us plenty of questions: what were Zhemao's actual motives? Did the fictional narratives ever have any actual real-world consequences?

Perhaps, had Zhemao chosen a different way to disseminate their work, we'd be reading their historical fiction novels by now rather than an apology to Wikipedia.

READ MORE: She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed. [Sixth Tone]

More on Wikipedia: Russia Reportedly Arrests Man for Editing Wikipedia About Ukraine

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Someone Slipped Hundreds of Fake Articles About Things That Never Happened Onto Wikipedia - Futurism

Google is going to start paying for its use of Wikipedia information to help power its knowledge panels in Google Search. The search giant, along with the digital library the Internet Archive, are the first customers for the still relatively new commercial product launched by the Wikimedia Foundation the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia. Its new service, Wikimedia Enterprise, offers access to Wikimedia content to companies that reuse and source Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects at a high volume.

For years, Google has used information from Wikipedia to offer web searchers quick answers and basic facts through the use of what it called knowledge panels, first introduced in 2012. This feature pulls information from freely available online resources, including Wikipedia, Google Books and other sources. Other tech giants have also leveraged Wikipedias information in their own products. Facebook, for example, in 2020 had tested Wikipedia-powered information panels similar to Googles. Apple today returns Wikipedia-powered results in its Spotlight Search feature.

Various tech companies large and small have also relied on Wikipedia data to enhance their own products and services.

The Wikimedia Enterprise service has been live for a year, servicing commercial customers on an opt-in basis. However, it hadnt announced its first customers until now. With Wikimedia Enterprise, customers of any size gain access to the services offerings including customer support and Service Level Agreements at prices based on their volume of use, much like any other product aimed at businesses. Theres also a self-serve free trial offering 10,000 on-demand requests and unlimited access to a 30-day Snapshot.

The organization says the product is now covering its current operating costs and has a growing list of users who are exploring its use. But it is not a requirement to use the commercial product, even if the customer accessing the data is large, like Google. All Wikimedia projects, including its suite of publicly available datasets, tools and APIs the Wikimedia Foundation offers will continue to be available for free use to all users, the foundation said in a June announcement.

As a result of their deal, Google and Wikimedia said theyre working together to make the content sourcing process more efficient.

Wikipedia is a unique and valuable resource, created freely for the world by its dedicated volunteer community, said Tim Palmer, managing director, Search Partnerships at Google. We have long supported the Wikimedia Foundation in pursuit of our shared goals of expanding knowledge and information access for people everywhere. We look forward to deepening our partnership with Wikimedia Enterprise, further investing in the long-term sustainability of the foundation and the knowledge ecosystem it continues to build.

Meanwhile, the Internet Archive, which runs the digital archive known as the Wayback Machine, will leverage the commercial service as well to improve its own offerings.

The Wikimedia Foundation and the Internet Archive are long-term partners in the mission to provide universal and free access to knowledge. By drawing from a real-time feed of newly added links and references in Wikipedia sites in all its languages, we can now archive more of the web more quickly and reliably, said Mark Graham, director of the Internet Archives Wayback Machine.

The commercial product was a part of the Wikimedia Foundations long-term strategy, which included recommendations involving advancing knowledge equity and knowledge as a service, it said.

Correction, 6/29/22, 5:36pm et: The Internet Archive will be leveraging the enterprise service but will not be a paying customer, we understand. Weve updated to correct this.

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Google and the Internet Archive are the first customers to gain commercial access to Wikipedia content - TechCrunch

On June 6, 2022, the Wikimedia Foundation, the owner of Wikipedia, filed an appeal against a Moscow courts order to remove prohibited information in articles regarding the war in Ukraine.

In their statement released on June 13th, the Wikimedia Foundation argued that the information at issue is fact-based and verified by volunteers its removal would therefore constitute a violation of peoples rights to free expression and access to knowledge. Additionally, according to the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia does not fall under Russian jurisdiction because it is a global resource available to anyone worldwide.

Wikipedia has consistently been an easily accessible online source of information, gathering material from hundreds of thousands of volunteers globally. It is routinely fact-checked, and its contributors take time to properly vet the details they publish. Therefore, Wikipedia is a credible source for documenting widely reported facts about the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Russias attempt to silence Wikipedia threatens to further harm regular Russian citizens who deserve to know about their governments actions. The Wikimedia Foundation filing this appeal sends a clear message to the Russian government that they will not be deterred from spreading accurate news, a commendable pushback to Russian aggression.

Threats of legal action from Russia arose shortly after the initial attacks on Ukraine in late February 2022 when volunteers began posting information on Russian Wikipedia detailing the events that were taking place. Some of these articles include Russian Invasions of Ukraine (2022), Battle for Kyiv, War Crimes During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Shelling of Hospital in Mariupol, Bombing of the Mariupol Theater, and Massacre in Bucha.

As early as March 1, 2022, Roskomnadzor, Russias federal agency in charge of monitoring and censoring Russian mass media sent a demand to the Wikimedia Foundation to remove content related to the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine posted by volunteer contributors to Russian Wikipedia. However, the Wikimedia Foundation defended all of the mentioned articles, expressing that they were centered around fact-based information. Later on March 31st, Roskomnadzor published a statement confirming their actions to remove inaccurate information on the subject of a special military operation of the RF Armed Forces in Ukraine, aimed at misinforming Russian users. When the Wikimedia Foundation defended and refused to take down the articles, a Moscow court issued a 5 million rubles (approximately $86,000) fine in April.

The legal standing that the Moscow court cited when issuing this fine was from a law enacted by President Putin in early March, which bans the spread of false information about the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, according to Kommersant, a Russian news source. Roskomnadzor argued that all the Wikipedia articles previously mentioned include prohibited information, and the Moscow court concurred with this finding.

This case with Wikipedia is only one instance within a larger issue where valuable information is being blocked from Russian citizens in order to protect the governments image and shape the narrative surrounding the invasion of Ukraine. Since early March, social media and news coverage have drastically changed in Russia, with Twitter and Facebook being blocked and dozens of journalists being banned from the country.

As international news coverage becomes harder to access in Russia, it is critical that the Moscow court accepts the Wikimedia Foundations appeal and allows the continuation of its publications in Russia. Russians must be accurately informed about their governments continued attacks on a sovereign state, and Putins administration must be held accountable for its role in this war. If millions of people do not have access to factual accounts of these recent events, it will be significantly more difficult to reach an end to the violence and begin taking steps toward negotiations.

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Wikipedia Fights Russian Order to Remove Ukraine War Information - The Organization for World Peace

Sport

28 Jun, 2022 09:34 PM2 minutes to read

The All Blacks have been forced to adjust as three coaches and two players have been hit by Covid just days before their first test with Ireland.Video / NZ Rugby

The All Blacks have been targeted by an online vandal ahead of the test series against Ireland, with their Wikipedia page edited to follow a "New Zealand English style guide".

The vandal hilariously skewered the Kiwi accent with a rogue edit - and added their own comment.

"The New Zealand netional rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blecks by Kiwis but uncorrictly spilled All Blacks on uts logo, riprisints New Zealand in min's unternetional rugby union, whuch us consudered the country's netional sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, 2011 and 2015," the edited page read.

"They're choice, bro," the prankster added.

The page went on to describe the breadth of the All Blacks' success, in a cringingly-familiar tone.

"New Zealand hes a sivinty-sivin per-cint wunning ricord un tist-match rugby, and has sucured more wuns thin losses aginst iviry tist opponent," it read.

"Sunce their unternetional debut un 1903,[6] New Zealand teams have played tist metches aginst 19 nations, of whuch ilivin hev niver won a game aginst the All Blecks. The team has also played aginst three multinetional all-star teams, losing only eight of 45 matches.

"Since the untroduction of the World Rugby Renkings in 2003, New Zealand has held the number-one renking longer thin all other teams combined. They jointly hold the ricord for the most consicutive tist match wuns for a tier-one renked nation, along with Ungland."

The changes, made by Wikipedia user Celebi12, were quickly removed - but not before they were noticed by eagle-eyed Kiwis.

The identity of Celebi12 remains a mystery but their Wikipedia edits show they appear to take an interest in English football - and record that they have previously been warned for "disruptive editing".

Sorry, dusruptive iditing.

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All Blacks Wikipedia page edited to mock New Zealand accent - New Zealand Herald